The ICA and K11 Art Foundation present Zhang Ding, Enter the Dragon 2015 ICA Theatre: 12-25 October 2015 Music programmed by Zhang Ding in association with NTS This autumn the ICA, London, will collaborate with K11 Art Foundation, to present the first solo UK institutional exhibition of Chinese artist Zhang Ding, entitled Enter the Dragon. …
16 September – 12 December 2015
Review by Jesc Bunyard
What role does philanthropy and private art collections have upon contemporary art? Philanthropists have founded many cities’ public collections, including Sheffield’s. In the 1930’s JG Graves worked with the city of Sheffield in order to create a new gallery and library. His financial contributions and his personal collection created an intellectual space for the people.
Text by Katie Hill … ‘as lowly as mere objects’ ……“如單純之物一般卑微” You might ask the question: ‘what is an artwork?’ Start with an everyday object, something you barely notice – a free newspaper left on the tube, a bench, a packet of cigarettes, nails or pieces of debris: wood, wire and string. Small insignificant …
The Whitworth
1 July – 20 September 2015
In what has been a challenging four decades in the history of Chinese art, Chinese artists have constantly navigated between domestic and global artistic, social and political tensions in their pursuit of artistic freedom.
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Royal Academy of Art
19 September – 13 December 2015
the Royal Academy of Arts will present a landmark exhibition of the Honorary Royal Academician, Ai Weiwei.
The exhibition will include significant works from 1993 onwards, the date that marks Ai Weiwei’s return to China following more than a decade living in New York. Ai Weiwei will create new, site-specific installations and interventions throughout the Royal Academy’s spaces.
Zhu Tian, graduated from the Royal College of Art MA Sculpture, won the 2015 Catlin Art Prize.
‘The more I am told not to do certain things, the more I have to try them out to see what on earth will happen…’
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